# Paste links if you have short topic title length
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/paste-links-if-you-have-short-topic-title-length/60024
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 28, 2017, 2:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paste-links-if-you-have-short-topic-title-length/60024 "2017-03-28T14:45:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2017, 2:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paste-links-if-you-have-short-topic-title-length/60024/1 "2017-03-28T14:45:24Z")
Continuing the discussion from [Start a topic by pasting a link (like Reddit)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/start-a-topic-by-pasting-a-link-like-reddit/54071):
In our site we have set `max topic title length` to 60, to prevent users from writing long and meaningless titles or use titles as description of the content.
But today I paste a link in the title that was over 60 characters ( [I siti con link verso streaming di film pirata non sono illegali in Italia: sentenza storica | Hardware Upgrade](http://www.hwupgrade.it/news/web/i-siti-con-link-verso-streaming-di-film-pirata-non-sono-illegali-in-italia-sentenza-storica_67895.html) ) and now I have this situation:
- link is truncate in the title and in the message (click the link in the message give a 404 error obviously)
- and clicking the link in the topic list give a 404 error too
Is it possible overwrite `max topic title length` only when someone use link as title, leaving the limit for all the other topics?
If it is not possible right now, can you consider this a feature request?
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2017, 2:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paste-links-if-you-have-short-topic-title-length/60024/2 "2017-03-28T14:57:17Z")
I believe this is the same issue reported at
> [@Create new topic by pasting fails when URL is too long](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-new-topic-by-pasting-fails-when-url-is-too-long/59352):
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> Hello! I have a problem with new feature that creates new topic when a user directly paste a URL in title section. Example (on [try.discourse.org](http://try.discourse.org)) As you can see, the “url” before the edited title appears truncated because are a “limit” to title. So, if the URL exceeds that limit, does not paste correct URL. For this example I used: https://blog.discourse.org/2017/03/moving-from-facebook-groups-to-discourse/more-text-to-url-more1-more2-more3-more4-more5-more6-more7-8-9-10-11-12-13-…
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### Author:  [@SidV](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SidV)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2017, 3:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paste-links-if-you-have-short-topic-title-length/60024/3 "2017-03-28T15:02:03Z")
> [@Trash](#):
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> If it is not possible right now, can you consider this a feature request?
And, if it’s possible, please add an option to edit that URL (because now it’s truncate, and redirect to 404 error). 😢
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### Author:  [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2017, 3:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paste-links-if-you-have-short-topic-title-length/60024/4 "2017-03-28T15:03:10Z")
Thanks @cpradio I didn’t see that topic.
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### Author:  [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2017, 3:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paste-links-if-you-have-short-topic-title-length/60024/5 "2017-03-28T15:09:42Z")
> [@SidV](#):
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> And, if it’s possible, please add an option to edit that URL (because now it’s truncate, and redirect to 404 error). 😢
Exactly , the only way to prevent the 404 error in the topic list is delete the wrong topic and make a new one without paste long URL in the title.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2017, 7:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paste-links-if-you-have-short-topic-title-length/60024/6 "2017-03-28T19:34:02Z")